Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
First published in 1989. The ballad or romance, as it is commonly called, has played a vital role over the centuries in Hispanic culture as an orally transmitted narrative song. It is characteristically the product of people who have had to look to themselves for entertainment. From the end of the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, the romancero (balladry) enjoyed a great vogue among learned poets and their audiences, especially in the Spanish and Portuguese courts. The authors' intent in this book is to survey and to assess the state of the romancero, not only in Spain and Portugal, but also in peripheral areas whereit has migrated and taken root.
Table of Contents
The artisan poetry of the romancero / Diego Catalâan Survival of the traditional romancero / Ana Valenciano -- Migratory shepherds and ballad diffusion / Antonio Sâanchez Romeralo -- In defense of romancero geography / Suzanne Petersen -- Hunting for rare romances in the Canary Islands / Maximiano Trapero -- Collecting Portuguese ballads tradition / Manuel da Costa Fontes -- The living ballad in Brazil / Judith Seeger -- The traditional romancero in Mexico / Mercedes Dâiaz Roig -- The Judeo-Spanish ballad tradition / Samuel G. Armistead, Joseph H. Silverman -- The structure and changing functions of oral traditions / Beatriz Mariscal de Rhett.